Tag: software

‘When a widespread outage affects devices from starting properly, Microsoft can broadly deploy targeted remediation’: MS introduces ‘quick machine recovery’ for Windows 11

‘When a widespread outage…

As part of the latest Windows Insider Preview build, Microsoft has announced that it’s testing a feature called ‘quick…
Microsoft announces changes to the Blue Screen of Death as rumours of an ominous Black Screen of Death stalk the land

Microsoft announces changes to…

The infamous Blue Screen of Death feels like it’s always there, waiting. The scourge of PC gamers and IT…
Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 31, 2025)

Five new Steam games…

Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games:…
Crypto scammer who reportedly stole at least $73 million through social media, calls, and dating services sentenced to a ‘statutory maximum of 20 years in prison’

Crypto scammer who reportedly…

A crypto scammer who is accused (alongside his co-conspirators) of stealing at least $73.6 million has been sentenced to…
Anthropic has developed an AI ‘brain scanner’ to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought

Anthropic has developed an…

It’s a peculiar truth that we don’t understand how large language models (LLMs) actually work. We designed them. We…
As if your work meetings weren’t already fun enough, now Otter has a new all-hearing AI agent that remembers everything anyone has said and can join in the discussion

As if your work…

Imagine a new work colleague who remembered everything you or anyone else ever said in a meeting. Wouldn’t that…
Steam now lets early access devs show a 1

Steam now lets early…

If you want to make god laugh, tell him your plans. If you want to make Gabe Newell laugh,…
Former music-pirating platform Napster to be reborn rather ironically as a metaverse for musicians to connect with their fans after $207 million deal

Former music-pirating platform Napster…

If you thought the Napster peer-to-peer music sharing platform was long since toast, a new $207 million deal says…
‘No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense’: Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth uses decoy pages to trap web-crawling bots and feed them slop ‘as a defensive weapon’

‘No real human would…

The web is plagued by bots. That’s nothing new of course, but now we’re in the midst of our…
Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 24, 2025)

Five new Steam games…

Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games:…